He is simply exhausted! He had flown around 50 hours in one week! His eight-day tour took him across 50,000 km in four continents! Is such hard work worth? Why international diplomacy at this time of the crisis-ridden domestic situation? What about the economic slow-down and when governance is almost at a standstill? Prime Minister’s…
Presidential Election in India
A Plea for a Conscience Vote! P.A.Sangma is the “Opposition” candidate An open and democratic contest is all the more good for a mature democracy/The new cohesion and also the new contradictions in the party ranks is all the more goof as a public education for the politicians who have become all the more cynical…
Two Nobel Laureates: One American and one Bengali!
Prof.Joseph Stieglitz speaks about Mamata Government’s land policy Prof.Amartya Sen keeps mum for far too long! Prof.Sen has a duty to West Bengal! When the state is burning, almost! Prof.Amartya Sen is typically a Bengali bhadralok, that is, he is well-educated and a Nobel Laureate at that and as such he had brought to much…
States : good, bad and plainly hopeless ones?
Elections in the states Does development gets any attention? Or it is all votebank politics, big money and violation of election code of conduct? Everyone, even the media, is talking about UP elections outcome. It is the make and break moment for Rahul Gandhi, they say. Is it all then about one person, one party…
Policy paralysis or a paralysis of will and self-confidence?
PMO is now getting noticed? Or, becoming controversial? As we go to press we learn the Prime Minister has constituted a group under the leadership of the Finance Minister to study the post-G2 issues. This is a wise step. The UP election is the only time when India was seen active and engaged. There were…
Electing a new President of India
Let no one do the same mistake as did in 2007 Indian Parliament celebrated its 60 years with due solemnity and appropriate protocols. What was noticeable in the speeches of leaders, from the Prime Minister to Sonia Gandhi and even the Opposition leaders was the stark fact that none of them recalled any of the…
Indian Parliament celebrates 60 years.
Citizens voices be better organised in India in silent protests like the one just now held in Moscow and Madrid! Pious speeches were made by the leaders who lacked all legitimacy and credibility See the sort of symbolism the celebration carried! First, the President of India who is the very symbol and embodiment of the…
“Small is Beautiful” Business models for agribusiness development!
The big disconnect! Agriculture and the private investments. ICAR is another world, alient world, as far as farmers investing in agribusiness venture. There is one body, called, Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium! What it has done? Precious little, shall we say? So to there are so many ICAR-funded bodies in Hyderabad. Oh, so many to name…